NIC Week # 4

[CoachK5]

Second week of conference games.

St. Joe (3-0) @ Marian (1-2) Holy War '26

SB Washington (0-3) @ Penn (3-0) 

Elkhart (2-1) @ SB Riley (1-2)

New Prairie (0-3) @ SB Adams (2-1)

Don't believe any of these games will be close.

[Sparty]

Can’t believe it’s week 4 already. 
Hope everyone is enjoying every minute and their teams are doing great.  

[LC_Bears_04]

13 hours ago, CoachK5 said:

Second week of conference games.

St. Joe (3-0) @ Marian (1-2) Holy War '26

SB Washington (0-3) @ Penn (3-0) 

Elkhart (2-1) @ SB Riley (1-2)

New Prairie (0-3) @ SB Adams (2-1)

Don't believe any of these games will be close.

South Bend St. Joseph

Penn

Elkhart

Soufh Bend Adams

On another note, there's no reason South Bend Washington and Penn should be playing each other.  It does neither team any good.

[hhpatriot04]

  

On 9/6/2026 at 7:08 PM, hhpatriot04 said:

Elkhart

Marian

New Prairie

Penn

South Bend Adams

South Bend Riley

South Bend St. Joseph

South Bend Washington

Thoughts on these helmets? Do they match what the teams are wearing this season? Any input is appreciated!

[npcougar15]

52 minutes ago, hhpatriot04 said:

  

Thoughts on these helmets? Do they match what the teams are wearing this season? Any input is appreciated!

Change New Prairies to a Navy Blue facemask and chinstrap

[npcougar15]

23 hours ago, CoachK5 said:

Second week of conference games.

St. Joe (3-0) @ Marian (1-2) Holy War '26

SB Washington (0-3) @ Penn (3-0) 

Elkhart (2-1) @ SB Riley (1-2)

New Prairie (0-3) @ SB Adams (2-1)

Don't believe any of these games will be close.

Stick a fork in us.

We are a terrible team in a terribly uninteresting conference. 0 Interesting games this week and maybe one or two the entire conference season (PennvsElkhart) (ElkhartvsStJoe). Why Penn keeps wanting to participate in this conference is beyond me

[GOLDRUSH1985]

2 hours ago, npcougar15 said:

Stick a fork in us.

We are a terrible team in a terribly uninteresting conference. 0 Interesting games this week and maybe one or two the entire conference season (PennvsElkhart) (ElkhartvsStJoe). Why Penn keeps wanting to participate in this conference is beyond me

I'm sure Penn doesn't, but what conference is there? Could you imagine the travel times to Crown Point , Lake Central , etc . Add in the time difference , kids wouldn't be getting home until midnight or after on school nights . 

[GOLDRUSH1985]

Maybe all 3 South Bend public schools should combine . 

[hhpatriot04]

9 hours ago, npcougar15 said:

Change New Prairies to a Navy Blue facemask and chinstrap

[npcougar15]

7 hours ago, GOLDRUSH1985 said:

I'm sure Penn doesn't, but what conference is there? Could you imagine the travel times to Crown Point , Lake Central , etc . Add in the time difference , kids wouldn't be getting home until midnight or after on school nights . 

The timezone argument is such a weak argument. You do realize the timezone splits the NP district right down the middle? I'd leave my house at 6am to get to the school at 5:15am for my 5:30am practice before school then after practices ended at 5:30pm I'd hop in the car and hopefully be home by 7pm. Every day, that's just how it is and you figure it out.

 

I'm not suggesting Penn leave the NIC in everything. But they 100% need too in football. A South Bend school hasn't beat them since 1986 (including St. Joe) and Penn is currently on a 164 game win streak against any school that is named "South Bend XXXXXX"....Their current schedule is such a waste of time for everyone involved. Go independent in football. Keep a DAC school week 1, keep Mishawaka week 2, Elkhart will have an opening in their schedule so keep them. You have Cathedral who is Independent, etc. 

how hard is it to make a schedule that looks like:

Valpo

Mishawaka

Elkhart

Cathedral & Bloomington South are independent 

Dwenger, Homestead, Snider, Carroll, New Palestine, have 5 non-con openings

Roncalli, Chatard, East Central have 6 non-con openings

Hobart, Lowell, Andrean, all have a non-con opening

you have Michigan schools, you have Ohio schools, you have Chicagoland schools

These other schools are figuring it out, why can't Penn?

 

Fact is Penn hasn't won state in 25 football seasons and in their 4 trips to Indy since then the scores have been 7-57, 0-54, 16-28, 14-63 against the big boys of Indy. What does Penn have to lose?

 

 

[GOLDRUSH1985]

Nice , had to throw the last couple sentences in there, didn't you? Look at it this way , the yearly butt kicking NP will take only makes them better. 

[GOLDRUSH1985]

8 hours ago, npcougar15 said:

The timezone argument is such a weak argument. You do realize the timezone splits the NP district right down the middle? I'd leave my house at 6am to get to the school at 5:15am for my 5:30am practice before school then after practices ended at 5:30pm I'd hop in the car and hopefully be home by 7pm. Every day, that's just how it is and you figure it out.

 

I'm not suggesting Penn leave the NIC in everything. But they 100% need too in football. A South Bend school hasn't beat them since 1986 (including St. Joe) and Penn is currently on a 164 game win streak against any school that is named "South Bend XXXXXX"....Their current schedule is such a waste of time for everyone involved. Go independent in football. Keep a DAC school week 1, keep Mishawaka week 2, Elkhart will have an opening in their schedule so keep them. You have Cathedral who is Independent, etc. 

how hard is it to make a schedule that looks like:

Valpo

Mishawaka

Elkhart

Cathedral & Bloomington South are independent 

Dwenger, Homestead, Snider, Carroll, New Palestine, have 5 non-con openings

Roncalli, Chatard, East Central have 6 non-con openings

Hobart, Lowell, Andrean, all have a non-con opening

you have Michigan schools, you have Ohio schools, you have Chicagoland schools

These other schools are figuring it out, why can't Penn?

 

Fact is Penn hasn't won state in 25 football seasons and in their 4 trips to Indy since then the scores have been 7-57, 0-54, 16-28, 14-63 against the big boys of Indy. What does Penn have to lose?

 

 

These Other Schools are figuring what out ? You mention Penn's State losses , NP has made it to state 2 times in that time frame . They got 77 points hung on them in one of the games . Maybe you should be concerned with NP instead of Penn .